Outreach

Soji Zen Center's outreach includes social engagement and service outside the Center—on and off the cushion. Soji students reach out to people who are facing major life challenges such as incarceration, drug/alcohol addiction, mental illness, homelessness, hunger, and discrimination or who are dying. We engage with veterans, the LGBT community and individuals in prison as well as people at key developmental stages – most often youth and seniors.

Listed below are current and past examples of our social engagement and community outreach efforts.

Prison Work

Ongoing Waxing Moon meditation group at the Federal Detention Center of Philadelphia

Taught meditation to prisoners who were working on their GED as a part of their release from prison

Youth

Co-led a meditation workshop with Warriors Yoga at a youth summit for Chester Boys and Girls Club in Chester, PA